or the Sanyo Phonosphere record player of 1973 that contained its own mini. Here’s some cool ads from an era when pop culture really started to get crazy and magazine ads mirrored the new sensibility that said “yes!” to being cool. When you think of space age design, it is usually the 1950s or 60s that will. The “Record Eater” (see the ad below) was inadvertently truth in advertising. Vinyl records are no longer $1.99 and these players are toys-vinyl killers-that will chew up that 180 gram Mobile Fidelity copy of Blonde On Blonde you paid $49.00 for. In recent years, the market has been flooded with cheap knock-offs of these cute record players. With heavy unadjustable tonearms and cheap carts/styluses and speakers the size of clam shells, these were intended for fun not serious music listening. Unfortunately, as beautiful as many of these designs are they weren’t remotely audiophile quality. It was the 1960s and everybody was getting hip. Eventually even the higher end stereo equipment, the gear outside of the financial reach of teenagers started to get groovy as well. We wanted to spin our records on stuff that was as fun looking as the music was fun to listen to. The drab old wooden players of our parents just wouldn’t do. Pop music needed pop art delivery systems that reflected a generation’s infatuation with color and style. When rock and roll came along the companies designing and manufacturing record players had to catch up to the teenage dream. Formed by singer-songwriter Steve Perry and bassist Dan Schmid, the band has experienced numerous personnel changes over the course of its 30-year history, with only Perry, Schmid and trumpeter Dana Heitman currently remaining from the original founding line-up.
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